Friday, July 22, 2011

'Lamb district attorney says Texas Ranger lied, but not really'

Lamb County District Attorney Mark Yarbrough once wrote in a memo that Sal Abreo was a liar; but in court Thursday Yarbrough told a different story.

Yarbrough said he wrote that Abreo was “the worst Texas Ranger you will ever meet,” and that “he lied to me to get me to file this case,” because he was frustrated with Abreo and didn’t really mean it.

The memo was penned two years after the impetus for Yarbrough’s frustration.

He said Abreo, the lead investigator in the 1996 murder of Evangelina Cruz, told him one thing about a witness which conflicted with her statement; but because Abreo cleared it up in another report, he never really lied, Yarbrough testified.

Claims of Abreo’s deceit and corruption have been a dominant issue in the civil rights suit filed by Alberto Sifuentes and Jesus Ramirez — the trial of which is close to entering its fourth week. ...

Sifuentes and Ramirez were arrested, convicted and imprisoned for the 1996 shooting death of Evangelina Cruz at the Littlefield Jolly Roger.

When an appeals court overturned their convictions and a Lamb County grand jury declined to indict, the pair of Mexican nationals sued the law enforcement and prosecutorial individuals and entities they say violated their constitutional rights to wrongly convict them.

8 comments:

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Seems the Texas Rangers have a problem with telling the truth. We had the Ranger who committed perjury in the Anthony Graves trial who, I think was promoted to the top Texas Ranger position in the state. Then we have Phillip Kemp who committed perjury in the Mineola Swinger's Club case. Now we have this guy. Maybe its time to admit that there is a systemic problem with perjury within the ranks of Texas law enforcement.

The commission of perjury is done with complete impunity in Texas. It is symptomatic of a system that is terribly broken. Lies, deceit, malice, bad eyewitness testimony, bad testimony for that matter. It is unreal what passes muster, every single day.

The righteous mind have left people, especially those in authority from the PrezBO all the way down.It takes building people's morality and that is no longer a priority in the United States of America. The corruption within the borders of the U.S.A. is coming to what we have lived to witness from 3rd world rulers, enforcers, dictors,kings, queens, etc...put prayer and the 10Commandments back into the class rooms, the pleadge, the flag and 30years from now will see a turn around. This was a different country when all the school children prayed each day for this country...it works, let try it again.

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